ÆRIAL NAVIGATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 73, 16 September 1911, Page 5

ÆRIAL NAVIGATION.

AEiIIOPLANES IN WARFARE. Gennany, at first devoting all her attention to dirigible balloons, has now decided to strengthen her position as regards aeroplanes with all speed. Forty military monoplanes were ordered by the German War Office in one group quite recently. The German authorities favor the monoplane on account ot its speed and transport facilities. Above all, it should be stated that the Kaiser himself is now extremely interested in the use of aeroplanes in warfare, and os a result of his interest in the subject it was expected that fifty aeroplanesi would b(J put in the field in the manoeuvre#.

f I I he Paris ''Matin" states that experiments were conducted at Cherbourg, in .France, during last month in the detec-

tion of submarines liy aeroplanes. Tlie aviator Aubrun, wlio hail been given guiding marks, succeeded in finding two submarines three miles out at sea and three kilometres apart. He next discovered in twenty minutes, without the aid of guiding marks, a submarine at a depth of six metres. It is virtually proved that «t a height of a thousand metres (3000 ft.) an aviator can find a submarine, while the periscope of the submarine will not reflect the image of an aeroplane more than f>ooft. high. The experiments are being continued.